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“In many ways, members of the Ballroom community work to challenge and undo the alienating and oppressive realities of built environments in urban centers by undertaking the necessary social and performance labor that allow its members to revise and reconfigure exclusionary and oppressive spatial forms.”

-Marlon M. Bailey, PhD, MA Engendering space: Ballroom culture and the spatial practice of possibility in Detroit”

Photo courtesy of CPR News “Colorado’s ballroom scene is about fierce runway-style competitions and creating safe spaces”

Explore Cutting-Edge Research Capturing the Science of Ballroom Culture

Engendering space: Ballroom culture and the spatial practice of possibility in Detroit by Dr. Marlon M. Bailey. This article examines the ways in which Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members of the Ballroom community create black queer space to contend with their spatial exclusion from and marginalization within public and private space in urban Detroit, Michigan.

Want to read more? Check out this article from Janelle Joseph & Naomi Bain “ Leisure as black survival: ballroom, vogue, and black queer and trans+ embodied activism in Canada

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